I just bought a whole house electricity monitor called an Envi by Current Cost. I don't know about the rest of you out there but I have always curious as to what really goes on with my electric bill. How could it go from $60 one month to $150 the next? Yes you can try to determine if this happened during the summer then maybe it was because I was using my AC more. Or I my dream of my becoming a baker came true and I was baking more bread than Entenmanns.
But guessing can only get you so far so I jumped at the chance to buy the Envi electricity monitor. The Envi comes with a white display with power supply, 2 CT clamps and one large transmitter with battery. Installation is pretty straight forward but when in doubt hire a qualified electrician, you are working with electricity here!
After the installation, the display immediately lit up and started displaying Watts consumed at that given moment and how much it was costing per day/month at that given moment. It knows how much it costs because part of the installation of the display is entering in how much your electricity costs per kWh.
If you look at the two pictures above, the first one with 3.90KW is how much it's using at that given moment and $443/month is how much it would cost me IF my usage stayed at 3.90KW day and night for 30 days. The second photo is after I turned off that device that caused the huge spike. Notice the usage went down from kilowatts to just plain watts, 970 to be exact and $110 a month. Can you guess what this "device" was that caused such a big spike?
Also notice that I'm at day 0, this device can store up to 7 years of data and you can download all this data to your computer. Stay tuned for more!!
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